Who has read "Creature From Jekyll Island" by G. Edward Griffin?

[Conza88]

I've read both books, Griffin's is much, much better. Changed my life, actually. Griffin's book uses many more quotations than Rothbard, and there are some absolute gems in there. Griffin also takes on the IMF and World Bank, which Rothbard does not. Griffin does a better job of explaining who benefited from Fed policies that led up to the Great Depression, and how these people managed to dodge the effects of the fallout. Griffin focuses a great deal more on key figures and architects of the Federal Reserve Act. Much heavier bailout coverage too.

You've read both books, good work. But have you read Rothbard's others? I.e that cover banking, fed, gold, money, inflation, history, united states?

A HISTORY OF MONEY AND BANKING IN THE UNITED STATES: THE COLONIAL ERA TO WORLD WAR II by Murray N. Rothbard?

PART 1
The History of Money and Banking
Before the Twentieth Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
PART 2
The Origins of the Federal Reserve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
PART 3
From Hoover to Roosevelt:
The Federal Reserve and the Financial Elites . . . . . . . . . . 259
PART 4
The Gold-Exchange Standard
in the Interwar Years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347
PART 5
The New Deal and the
International Money System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431​

Or Wallstreet, Banks and American Foreign Policy?

As Rothbard always did. He named, names.

Griffin also strongly covers history (Nicholas Biddle's quotes on the 2nd Bank of the U.S. are astounding) and the "New World Order" conspiracy and how the Fed is involved in that. I did not believe in the NWO prior to reading Jekyll Island. I do now. I had no idea of the existence of Carrol Quigley, the CFR, Fabian Society, or Trilateral Commission. The Fed's role in fueling the military industrial complex is covered here, which I don't think Rothbard covered.

Rothbard would go into this less.. naturally.

Griffin's book is also more up to date than Rothbard's book. Really, I can't recommend it enough. Cheapest I've seen it is at Border - I bought mine for $19.50 there in December, most places want $24.95.

The above Rothbard book - 2002. Create - 1994.. Not that means anything.

I dunno about the Mises Institute, but Tom Woods is a member of that and he recently plugged a new anti-New Deal book:
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=195576
and the author of that book used Creature from Jekyll Island as one of his key sources. Creature from Jekyll Island is also in Ron Paul's reading list in the back of The Revolution: A Manifesto, and Ron Paul's blurb is on the back cover: "A superb analysis. Be prepared for one heck of a journey through time and mind". That sums it up pretty well

Cus LvMI hasn't got copyright of it and since LvMI is a scholarly institution.

 

[Brassmouth]

Thanks, everybody. I'm not too sure about this one. I won't give it priority, but if I ever run out of other things to read I'll look into it.

Cus LvMI hasn't got copyright of it and since LvMI is a scholarly institution.

They sell Ron Paul's books and the PIG books on their site. I don't think they have copyright of those. Obviously, I could be wrong, though.

 

[Conza88]

They sell Ron Paul's books and the PIG books on their site. I don't think they have copyright of those. Obviously, I could be wrong, though.

Because Ron Paul and Woods, Murphy etc are linked to LvMI.

G. Edward Griffin ain't.